The relevance of the dissertation research topic is due to the linguistic and speech turns in philosophy (according to M. Popovych), which caused separation of a special area for study of philosophical language and the study of intonation resources of philosophical texts on the borders of epochs became especially relevant.
The research has identified the essential features of a philosophical text and the peculiarities of cooperation of intonation, articulation, detonation in it as the “agents” of the triple essence of man (antropos, merops, brotos according to Heraclitus).
The dissertation presents a comparative study of the role of intonation in the philosophical text of the “auditory” (“Essays on the Origin of Languages...” by J. J. Rousseau) and the “visual” (“Of Grammatology” by J. Derrida) cultures.
The study is based on the conceptual and methodological foundations of postmodern philosophy and on the next ideas: D. Bolinger’s idea about intonation as universalia; B. Asafiev’s idea about “intonation epochs”, “intonation crisis” between epochs and regular revision and updating of “intonation dictionary”; М. Bachtin’s idea about human communities’ “intonation funds”; J.-J. Rousseau’s idea about the trend of “articulation increasing” in philosophy, music and culture; Heraclitus's idea about the triple essence of human; T. Adorno’s ideas about the philosophy of punctuation, and etc. The study is interdisciplinary because it involves data from general linguistics, musicology, neurophysiology and cosmology in addition to philosophy.
The dissertation tasks are solved with the help of the following research methods: comparative analysis and critical reflection of research of the philosophical text, philosophical language, intonation of writing; structural analysis of the text and its deconstruction; hermeneutic, linguistic, semantic and etymological analysis; tonal diagnostics of the text and frequency analysis of words.
The scientific novelty of the obtained results is determined by the fact that the presented work substantiates the key role of intonation in philosophical texts of both “auditory” and “visual” cultures with a tendency to increase articulation and complicate the expression and perception of intonation. The comprehension of each intonation is based on the degree of recognition of its detonation plume.
The intonation-articulation conflict in Derrida's grammatological theory of writing and the epistemological contribution of this conflict to the understanding of the philosophical text are thoroughly studied. The study has revealed “the third force” identified as detonation (managed and unmanaged kinds of it).
A new philosophical concept of “detonation” is proposed to express both centrifugal intentions of deconstruction in shifting accents, overcoming binary oppositions, or revising cultural conventions and its program tuning on “explosions”. In the mechanistic paradigm of the XVIII century J.-J. Rousseau interprets the intonation crisis of a philosophical text as an “energetic” one, looking for ways to solve it in an extensive way (punctuation), which allows us to understand intonation as some energy stored in the “sarcophagus” of a text. Instead, in the textological paradigm of postmodern culture, centrifugal tendencies intensified, which made it possible to comprehend the inseparable cooperation of intonation with articulation and detonation in a text as a “centrifuge”.
The preconditions for the emergence of philosophy in the Greek culture and the special cultural mission of philosophers in it are specified; as well as the correlation of the concepts “philosophical text” is defined, “intonation”, “articulation”, “langage-langue-parole” with the concept of “writing”. The structure of “Essay on the Origin of Languages...” and “Of Grammatology” is detailed, and the tonalities of both texts are specified.
Intonation has been found as constitutive for the philosophy and ethos of a cultural person. The text “Essays on the Origin of Languages...” during Derrida's reading confirms Rousseau's hopes for a conservative function of writing, while the text “Of Grammatology” confirms Rousseau's prediction about the tendency of increasing articulation.
The theoretical and practical significance of the obtained results of the research lies in the possibility of their application for further study of the problem of intonation in the philosophical text. The most promising reading strategy of philosophical text, as we consider, is the triple strategy: intonating, detonating and articulating in order to provide not only the author's, and cultural resources of the text, but also the reader's investment.
Key words: philosophy of culture, intonation, articulation, detonation, philosophical text, philosophy of language, deconstruction, philosophical anthropology, phonocentrism.
